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MellieM42

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Posts: 9012

(06/06/2009 15:14:23)

More English than a full sunday lunch
with Yorkshire puddings

I have read all of those books, and I hated Rowan from the very beginning.

lindsey ms

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Posts: 1874

(06/06/2009 21:21:40)

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i didn't like her at the beginning, and now just hate her. and i really liked michael up until mona came into things.

MellieM42

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Posts: 9013

(09/06/2009 00:21:46)

More English than a full sunday lunch
with Yorkshire puddings

Hate Mona too. I don't know why I read all of those books. Oh wait, I do; they had lots of sexy bits. At least with the vampires, there were a number of likeable characters. I liked the dude from the Talamasca who married into the family, but then he bit the big one. I simply LOVED Julian Mayfair, which is probably why I kept reading; the rest of them sucked. The dying from the sex was SO DUMB. Don't read the one that combines the vamps with the witches; I was so angry I swore I would never read another of Anne Rice's books and I haven't since.

lindsey ms

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Posts: 1879

(09/06/2009 04:55:53)

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even though her characters are making me crazy in these books, something about the way anne rice describes things keeps me going. I feel like I could walk into their houses and know where everything is, or have been to the different cities, or know the characters even. I am able to build some type of "relationship" even with the characters I don't like (which is more than I can say for other authors) I like Aaron Lightner also, but was initially put off with another main character from the Talamasca, and that character not being David Talbot. But the vamp books are much better. Did you ever read Merrick Mellie? I read that first, and it makes many references to Mayfairs that are described in witching hour, especially since Merrick is a "black Mayfair"...it also combines vampires and witchcraft, but on a darker note.

Indieprincess

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Posts: 6097

(09/06/2009 16:39:51)

You two are arguing like an old married couple
SLASH!IT’S CANON!

I kind of want to re-read the Lord of the Rings. Maybe we should have a book club and all read it at once? Do a chapter by chapter analysis. "Topic one: OMG - Glorifindel - not Arwen(!!!) rescues Frodo at the Ford???!?!?!? WTF!"

hahah.

Just an idea.

Indie

JesusChristIsLife

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Posts: 777

(09/06/2009 19:00:10)

That could be fun, Indie!! I'm in!

lindsey ms

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Posts: 1881

(09/06/2009 19:21:11)

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the weirdness of Tom Bombadil!! I will do it, but may have trouble keeping up :P

Orlified

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Posts: 2078

(09/06/2009 20:39:33)

Pay attention to me.
I don't talk for my health.

Maybe then I could finally get through the books. I would totally do that! How fun

"I think sexuality has to exist between any two living things for those two living
things to get along. You know, do Steven Tyler and Joe Perry flirt with each other?
Absolutely. That's what makes things cool. But not, like, weiner-in-tush flirting." - John Mayer

MellieM42

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Posts: 9016

(09/06/2009 23:50:24)

More English than a full sunday lunch
with Yorkshire puddings

I would be willing to do that.

L- Merrick is the one where I gave up on her. I couldn't believe that after all that Louis had been through that he would have made another vampire.

lindsey ms

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Posts: 1883

(10/06/2009 03:23:22)

Official Anakin Braid Tugger

really? not even for love?? (and i don't consider claudia the same kind of love at all)

MellieM42

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Posts: 9017

(12/06/2009 01:37:01)

More English than a full sunday lunch
with Yorkshire puddings

The thing that I really liked about Louis was that he wasn't completely vampire; there was still a lot of humanity left in him. By the end of Merrick, that was gone - both because he turned her and because he had to drink more of Lestat's blood to be saved after he tries to kill himself. (If I remember correctly.) When that happened, I felt that Rice had gone and killed the very things I loved most about Louis. He was weaker and more flawed than the other vampires at the start, and now he was just like the rest of them. I was disappointed.

I was so mad at this book that I bought it, read it in one day, and returned it "unread" to the bookstore the next. I know that is dishonest, but if you could see how I treat books you would know that the book looked untouched so I didn't feel quite so bad about it.

In fact, one of the Twilight books that I borrowed came to me with its binding broken, and I fixed it for the owner. People need to be kind to their books.

lindsey ms

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Posts: 1884

(12/06/2009 03:51:17)

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i'm weird- i have a high respect for my books and try to teach my children the same, but like when my books look well loved! I'm not afraid to dog-ear a page

Indieprincess

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Posts: 6099

(12/06/2009 04:37:03)

You two are arguing like an old married couple
SLASH!IT’S CANON!

I don't break the spine of hardcover or paperback books - but I love finding weird smudges on pages. Makes me happy that someone was trying to juggle a burrito and read at the same time.

My worst food-on-book moment occured while I was reading the 5th HP book. I had to go to a birthday party the day after it came out, so I tried my hardest to read straight through the night and finish...but unfortunately, I didn't. I had gotten right up the point where Bellatrix and Harry are in the MoM corridor and Harry tried to Avada Kedavra her . Anyway, the bday party lasted HOURS. I didn't get home until later that night and as I was driving back I stopped at a Taco Bell and picked up some soft tacos.

As soon as I got back to the house, I made a beeline for the book and started eating my tacos.

Not a minute later Voldemort says something RIGHT BEHIND HARRY and I had been freaking out over the whole Deptarment of Mysteries battle and was just OUT OF MIND with worry and anxiety and sadness (Sirius!) that when Voldemort spoke, I dropped my taco RIGHT ON THE FREAKING BOOK.

Yeah, gross.

But during my re-reads, I always smile when I see the stain because I think about that night and how I was so incredibly wound up.

So yeah, those little 'love marks' on books make me happy.
Broken spines, torn pages, ripped covers make me sad.

Indie

MellieM42

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Posts: 9019

(13/06/2009 01:57:01)

More English than a full sunday lunch
with Yorkshire puddings

I write notes in margins of books for myself when I make cool connections with other things, especially in biographies. But I also have been known to correct typos or factual errors. I have a problem. In the book I am reading now, The People of the Book, the name of my neighborhood in Boston is MISSPELLED, so I fixed that.

lindsey ms

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Posts: 1885

(13/06/2009 03:04:11)

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Typos IRK me to no end!! I have to re-read them several times and always think to myself "does it really say...." badly edited books are a pet peeve!

Orlified

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Posts: 2082

(13/06/2009 15:06:50)

Pay attention to me.
I don't talk for my health.

Oh man! I am SO anal when it comes to the condition of my books...as you can probably guess, especially my HP books. I am re-reading the series for the umpteenth and I was reading OoTP (oddly enough Indie...). I was having my mid afternoon snack of a yummy salad and gosh darn, I dropped a piece of dressing coated cheese on my book. OMG did I freak out. I HATE HATE HATE staining my books...however, after reading about Indie's love affair with her stains...I may have come around. That is such a romantic idea!

"I think sexuality has to exist between any two living things for those two living
things to get along. You know, do Steven Tyler and Joe Perry flirt with each other?
Absolutely. That's what makes things cool. But not, like, weiner-in-tush flirting." - John Mayer

Indieprincess

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Posts: 6100

(13/06/2009 15:23:53)

You two are arguing like an old married couple
SLASH!IT’S CANON!

Haha - OotP is one unlucky book!

I just find it memorable and cool that there are people who are so in to books that they read and eat at the same time. Like how people watch movies and tv while eating.

Indie

JesusChristIsLife

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Posts: 779

(13/06/2009 19:56:32)

I agree. Did I tell y'all my copy of GoF fell apart? I read it way too much. The spine just gave away.

MellieM42

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Posts: 9020

(13/06/2009 20:56:42)

More English than a full sunday lunch
with Yorkshire puddings

Kat, I would be upset too. I have all first edition hardcovers of those Harry Potter books. Although the American editions aren't going to be worth as much as the English editions will be (with perhaps the exception of Goblet of Fire, which has the passage with the erroroneous order of Harry's parents coming out of Voldemorte's wand. ) I have a first edition hardcover of the English GOF that a friend gave me.

Indie, you need to read 84 Charring Cross Road. It is about a woman's love affair with books.

Indieprincess

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Posts: 6102

(16/06/2009 06:52:47)

You two are arguing like an old married couple
SLASH!IT’S CANON!

Oooh, I'll put in on my list!

I have the first editions of 4, 5, 6, & 7 of the Harry Potter books and Lilly and James coming out backwards DRIVES ME NUTS!!
Didn't we have a discussion on how stoked we all were when the American version (beginning in book 5?) started using the same lingo as the English versions? Such as trainers instead of sneakers and such? Or am I just making that up?

Speaking of lists - we should each post our top ten favorite books and why we love them so much!

Indie

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